I was in a hurry last night and didn’t read your post #55 in which you accused me of hating our country and offering me a one-way ticket to leave if I promised to never return. I am afraid I will have to decline your “love” offering.
From Lincoln’s Second Inaugural address:
If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.”
It is amazing how you interpret my disagreement with you over whether or not it was particularly heinous for Tiller’s killer to take his life at a church as opposed to anywhere else into assertions that 1) I don’t believe you are pro-life, 2) I am arrogant, insincere, and dishonest, 3) that you respect me and have not falsely accused me, even as you call me a hater of our country and offer me a one-way ticket to leave, etcetera, etcetera...
If you interpret the Bible in the same way as you have our conversation(s), then I understand why you and I cannot agree on what it says.
Please keep up your good work on behalf of the unborn. God bless your efforts that bring honor to Him!
I told you that I knew you wouldn’t accept. I didn’t accuse you of anything. It was truthful that you hate this country. Your words demonstrate this.
Thanks for putting up the text of the speech. I’ll read it when I have time. However, I stand by my view.
I spoke with my roomate about our exchanges. She is a 57 year old born again Christian whose parents were Four Square ministers. She has studied the Bible all her life. According to her, you are wrong on 1) Tiller’s murder, and 2) that it happened in a church.
BTW, do you live in Kansas? Are you a member of Fred Phelps’ “church”?